Such a concept — guaranteed byes for the Big Ten and SEC — is an unusual but somewhat expected maneuver from college football’s goliaths.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast discussing the current relevancy of the NFL Scouting Combine. Well Dan and Pat do, Ross just disappears at the start of the show. Once Ross returns, the trio debates which QB in this draft process will become the 'lightning rod' prospect of 2024.
One of the potential models for a new College Football Playoff may be emerging.
It's the second significant raise for Leipold in the last 15 months.
While Williams' compensation is an outlier, it still shows the significant earning power college football players currently enjoy.
The Army-Navy game’s future as a standalone event and its relevance in the CFP’s selection of the 12-team field is up in the air in this new era.
Perkins was a breakout star as a freshman edge rusher with 7.5 sacks in 2022.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast reacting to the latest court ruling in Tennessee that essentially seals the fate for the NCAA and it's inability to put guardrails on NIL. The trio believes there may be no more legal levers to pull for the NCAA to regulate NIL in college sports.
Bieniemy has been an NFL offensive coordinator for the past six seasons.
The NIL world just became even more of a free-for-all.
The plan originated from SEC athletic administrator meetings and has the support of coaches, who reviewed the concepts last week. The potential December changes are now being socialized across the country.
The committee is discussing levying suspensions on more school officials in infractions cases, including compliance officers, athletic directors, university presidents and chancellors.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast analyzing the new approved format for the College Football Playoff, which will have five automatic qualifiers and seven at-large bids.
Ideally, the people that run the College Football Playoff wouldn’t be discussing expanding the College Football Playoff before the College Football Playoff has even officially expanded.
All 134 FBS programs have agreed to participate in the game.
Get ready for more automatic qualifiers for certain conferences.
Are there more changes on the way for the College Football Playoff?
The number of underclassmen entering the NFL Draft is down dramatically, year-over-year.
The CFP officially has a new format.
The gap between haves and have-nots is widening, and the Group of Five can't keep up.
In a memo sent to his league administrators, one commissioner described reports of the CFP agreeing to or having concluded an extension of the media rights deal with ESPN as “incorrect.”
The Longhorns have locked in their head coach after a Big 12 championship and a trip to the College Football Playoff.
Details about new leadership will be announced next week, according to the league.
Holly played three games for the Tigers during the 2023 season.
Elliott worked as an assistant at South Carolina before taking the Georgia State job in 2017.
One of the great careers in sports broadcasting is coming to an end.
In the proposal, the Pac-12 is asking the CFP to guarantee the league revenue distribution amounts and voting privileges.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast breaking down the coaching turnover that took place over the last few days at UCLA.
The playoff is expanding from four teams to 12 this season.
The gap between the major conferences and all others has existed for decades, but now there are cracks forming within that top tier of conferences — and those cracks could lead to major changes for the college football and basketball postseasons.
Foster has been UCLA's running backs coach for the past seven seasons.
Grubb is heading back to Seattle after a few weeks in Tuscaloosa.
The 21-year-old was honored in a ceremony Friday.
When the head coach of UCLA just up and quits to become an assistant somewhere else, it should make you question everything.
Kelly is heading to Ohio State.
O'Brien was hired as Ohio State's offensive coordinator in January.
Raiola, a longtime Georgia commit, flipped from the Bulldogs to the Cornhuskers before the early signing period.
Martindale replaces Jesse Minter after Minter left to run the Chargers' defense.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde examine the news that Kirk Herbstreit may have contributed to quarterback Dylan Raiola flipping from Georgia to Nebraska.
Livingston has spent the last six seasons as the Bengals' safeties coach.
Saban didn't stay fully retired for very long.
Minter announced his departure Tuesday on social media.
In the wake of his dad's departure, Steve is headed across the country.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde examine the fallout from SEC & Big Ten commissioners Greg Sankey and Tony Pettiti creating a new partnership on the future of college football.
If it stands, Monday's ruling puts further pressure on the NCAA's amateurism model and its stance that athletes are student-athletes rather than employees.
Jay Harbaugh and Mike Macdonald both worked on the Michigan Wolverines staff.
With college sports in turmoil, the CFP management committee is still undecided on a future format. There are several key issues in play this week in Dallas.
Despite a damning Supreme Court ruling in 2021, college sports leaders kept plugging away with frivolous matters via the NCAA. Now there's a real reckoning happening, and its two biggest conferences are taking charge.
Sankey believes the NCAA should focus on the larger issues in college athletics rather than pursuing individual cases of recruiting violations.
Amid one of the most pivotal times in college athletics, the SEC and Big Ten are creating a joint advisory group to address the turmoil enveloping the industry.